Reply With QuoteI have apparently built a career now being a geek.
All I regret is that I missed all the cool stuff--internet, D&D--that didn't reach my small town before I went off to college.
Heck no, I love being a geek,
Sure, it kinda sucked in highschool but I was not popular at all for other reasons anyways and my love for comics, Star Trek or Star War and roleplaying games where the things that kept me sane. And I had a few loyal friends with whom I could share those with so it was cool.
Funny how now, they actually make me more popular at places like work. Be it either running a quick Call of Cthulhu roleplaying scenario during several lunch break in the lunchroom for a week or having a few co workers approach me to ask me about "the guy shooting the arrows" in the new Avengers movie trailer. Heck, I posted in another tread that I had a meeting with the vice president of my company and he was asking me about my Nightwing poster in what passes as my office there and I had to explain to him the several people that had been a Robin.
So yeah! I love my nerd side and would not trade it for the world.
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I have apparently built a career now being a geek.
All I regret is that I missed all the cool stuff--internet, D&D--that didn't reach my small town before I went off to college.
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"She felt tears well up in her eyes. No more of that. She wasn’t some dumb kid being used as a lab rat anymore. She was Noir now. She had power. She had freedom. Fuck self-pity."
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I have generally enjoyed my time as a geek. My main life regret was all the time I spent in retail as opposed to refining and making good use of my geek-like powers.
Realistically, I think all my nerd things help steer me away from bad influences. I know that where I live, the possibility of falling into a drug culture, into a culture of violence, is a lot more...conceivable than a lot of people. I think without nerdy crap, I might have fallen into some bad things and I'm grateful for that.
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I have apparently built a career now being a geek.
All I regret is that I missed all the cool stuff--internet, D&D--that didn't reach my small town before I went off to college.
...I'm a dead wanker walkin', huh.
I've met so many of my friends through geeky hobbies, I can't really imagine a life without any of them.
I hate cheap shots in the media that ridicule just for the Hell of it.
I think the 10 year period between 1975-1985 gave us geek culture as we know it. So much neat stuff in such quick succession. In a way it's almost like geek culture came about as generation X tried to recapture that 10 year high. Or at least keep it going. It was an incredible time to be a kid.
Without geek culture influencing my life I'd probably be a pastor at a church somewhere. That's where I was headed before I really let my inner geek out. I'm so glad I did!
What about beer geeks?
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